16-30 November 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline

It’s time to publish the second Cyber Attacks Timeline of November (Part I here), showing the main cyber incidents occurred between the 16th and the 30th and published in the news.

The decreasing trend that has characterized the last weeks seems over: this fortnight has seen a sharp rise in the number of attacks, and even if no mega breaches were detected, the list includes some remarkable events.

Analyzing the events related to Cyber Crime, the list includes a new massive attack orchestrated via the Mirai botnet, this time against Deutsche Telekom, whose 900,000 customers have been knocked offline. But also the breaches targeting Three Mobile, victim of two hackers (immediately arrested) able to access the customers’ database, and Gorilla Glue, whose 500Gb database has been leaked by The Dark Overlord, are worth to consider. And let’s not forget the gang dubbed Gobalt, who has attacked cash machines in more then a dozen of countries across Europe using the technique known as ‘jackpotting’.

Moving to a different sector (Cyberwar), an important event has been registered in Saudi Arabia (and apparently the outbreak is still ongoing) where a new version of the infamous Shamoon wiper malware (allegedly originating from Iran) has paralyzed eight Governmental institutions including the Central Bank.

The chart also includes a massive campaign against Android users dubbed Gooligan, the return of the infamous Fancy Bear APT group (AKA APT8), and another hack against Mark Zuckerberg’ Pinterest Account.

In any case, as I said earlier, the list is quite long this time, so feel free to scroll it all for the details of the cyber landscape in November.

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2015 and, in a bit, 2016 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics that are regularly published, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Additionally, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts), and if useful, you can access the timeline in Google Sheet format: